The Great Curriculum Reveal 2011

GIVEAWAY!
Details to follow,
so please,
read to the end.  :)

Hip, hip, hooray!

It's time for the the Great Curriculum Reveal!

Clicking here will redirect you to Our Academy page

where you can read all about our plans

for the 2011-2012 school year!

I want to also tell you a little about my

Favorite Resource This Week!

Join Learning All the Time
for links to more great resources!

One of our most-valued resources is the website

My Audio School.

MAS is a paid membership site.  The cost is incredibly reasonable, only $15 per year, per family.  With a paid membership, you have full access to a large, and growing, collection of free downloadable audio content. 

I plan to download several audio books available at MAS to my boys' iPod.  Then they can listen to their school work while I tutor, while we grocery shop, while we're traveling to all our different out-of-school activities, or when we need a quiet time.  You can read more about my MAS plans on Our Academy page.

The site creator, Molly, the Counter-cultural Mom, has poured hours (and I do mean HOURS) into this labor of love.  Initially, Molly set out to find quality audio content for her dyslexic son, and in the process, created a place for families to access free downloads without having to search the world wide web over.  She has done the hard work for us, and the time it saves me to have what I need at my fingertips is well worth the $15 subscription cost. 

However, you may not have to pay for full-access this year!  Molly has decided to celebrate the Great Curriculum Reveal with us by giving one Olive Plants reader a free one-year subscription to My Audio School! 

To enter, visit MAS.  Some of the content is available to non-members, so take a minute to peruse the free collection.  Then return to Olive Plants and comment on this post about which audio book your child would most enjoy.  While you're there, make sure you take a few minutes to look around.  You will be amazed at all the titles Molly has compiled and the care she has taken to ensure quality content.

For additional entries you can do any or all of the following

(please leave a separate comment for each):

1. Follow Olive Plants.
2. Tweet about this giveaway (@Homeschooldawn).
3. Become a fan of My Audio School on Facebook.
4. Participate in The Great Curriculum Reveal.  You will need to link in at Kingdom Arrows.  This is worth 3 additional entries!!!

I will accept entries until Monday, June 13, 2011 at 11:59 p.m.  I will select a winner using random.com on Tues., June 14 and announce the winner that day.

Make sure you visit Kingdom Arrows, too, and check out all the other participating blogs!

Happy Curriculum Revealing!

Dawn

The Great Curriculum Reveal Blog Hop

I think the whole reason I became a homeschool mom is so I could justify my book-buying habits!  ;)

Of course, my reasons for homeschooling my children are much better than that.  However, I am absolutely giddy this time of year as the boxes of books, teaching materials, and learning gizmo's arrive at my house in anticipation of the start of a whole new school year.

My fellow curriculum junkie connoisseur, Heather of Kingdom Arrows, and I are teaming up to host a blog hop in which we all have a chance to take a peek at each other's materials for next year. 

It's like a virtual Tupperware party!  We can all take our stuff, pass it around, and ooh and aah!  Only, you don't have to buy anything... just share what you have already bought!!

To participate, write a post or create a page on your blog telling us all about your curricular plans for next year, 2011-2012.  You can add pictures and links to products if you like.  Then link in your post at Kingdom Arrows on Monday, June 6.

In return, we ask that you do three things:

1. Display our picture header in your post or post the button in your side bar.  You can grab the picture from above or the button code over in my sidebar.
2. Link to Kingdom Arrows.  If you display the button, that's already done for you!
3. Link to Olive Plants somewhere in your post.  You can mention that I am the co-hostess if that helps.